There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

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I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal.

Religious faith as a whole induces various health benefits in the general population through complex biological processes.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall.Piper

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.

I feel a responsibility to get the truth out into the world.

There's less pressure to look good as you get older.

I do know its important to keep the romantic spark alive in your marriage. But with four kids, sometimes it's enough just to keep yourself alive.

....there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to go, and a body unhindered by illness or social restraints.